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On Black Friday, I traveled down to Easton where I caught the end of a Rovers basketball practice. It was a feel-good day for Easton coming off the Thanksgiving win over Phillipsburg. Ben Childs, the new Red Rovers basketball coach, was at the...

An intercepted dispatch from the front of the ‘war on Christmas’ (Wednesday's print column) To: The Troops From: High Command, The Minimize-Christmas Army. Subject: Discouraging News We here at MCA headquarters wish we could offer you better...

Christmas will be here before you know it. If you're like me, finding stocking stuffers is a last-minute scramble, and as my daughters recently pointed out, I buy way too many hair accessories (who couldn't use more ponytail holders?). To......

Most people are familiar with the legend of Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus, who rewards good children with presents during the Yuletide season. But in the folklore of some European countries, jolly old St. Nick has a dark counterpart in the figure of...

A reader got in touch this morning: We took our grandkids to Great America on Columbus Day--our first visit there in a couple of decades. We knew the Halloween theme would be prominent, and we knew some park employees would......

At Sunday’s 17th A Lehigh Valley Christmas concert at Miller Symphony Hall in Allentown, The James Supra Band was like waking up on Christmas morning. And Cunningham and Associates was like the present under the tree. Those two bands were......

It's a holiday showdown as extreme holiday decorating is the focus of ABC’s The Great Christmas Light Fight, a new competition series beginning Monday, Dec. 9 at 9pmET. Never have cameras captured the intense planning, drive and pure spectacle of ...

I got an email this morning from a friend I spend two days with every year. The subject line was: "Today is Christmas." He was talking about the annual March Madness party we attend every year on the first two......

Tonight is trick or treat night in my community. I've been in the Lehigh Valley for 40 years, and I still think it's idiotic that Halloween isn't on Halloween. For several communities, this weird custom of non-Halloween trick or treating......